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They were and are an excellent resource. Is it inevitable that traffic would decrease as questions are answered? Has traffic gone somewhere else? Has AI replac
by BatFastard 3y ago
They were and are an excellent resource.
Is it inevitable that traffic would decrease as questions are answered? Has traffic gone somewhere else? Has AI replaced it?
- whynotmaybe 3y agoFor me, a few months ago, when I had a question, I used to google/bing it and try to find my solution between 2-3 different SO answers (even the questions themselves were often helpful). Now, AI kinda replaced for me, it's copilot first, then ChatGPT if copilot is not enough, then google/bing if ChatGPT is not enough and maybe finally SO. Conservative figure from my side would be 15-25% less stackoverflow in a regular day. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
- politelemon 3y agoI feel SO missed a trick here by not creating a Copilot like integration first.
- azayrahmad 3y agoNot sure about the statistics, but an anecdote for me: I had a specific programming issue at work I need to solve, and I tried googling for answers in Stack Overflow. There are some answers but ultimately none of what I found can actually solve my issue. Then I ask ChatGPT to suggest a solution, and in about 5 seconds it gave me an answer. Not perfect, but with little editing it is solved. Now I'm sure that ChatGPT probably scraped StackOverflow, perhaps using the very same answers I got from StackOverflow, but combined with other answers from other sources resulting in the instant answer. That does not necessary mean AI will replace StackOverflow, it just means that people wouldn't ask redundant questions in StackOverflow anymore, just questions that AI can't solve.